World as family : a journey of multi-rooted belongings / Vishakha N. Desai.

By:

Desai, Vishakha N [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]Description: x, 284 p, 24 cmISBN:

9780231203838(pbk.)

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version:: World as familyDDC classification:

305.891411073 DES

Contents:

Too bad, another girl! -- Home : beams, dreams and food -- Dancing with gods -- Who is Kwame Nkrumah? -- Strangers become "family" -- Vietnam : war or country? -- The trauma of return -- Attachments, made/unmade -- Art connections -- Between being and becoming -- Expanding identities -- Death and life in the diasporic family -- Perceptions and problematics of belonging -- Building communities across borders -- Remaking "home" in the world -- Creating the culture of "us" -- Epilogue: Becoming "family" in a world of pandemics.

Summary: "Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a global family"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	305.891411073 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4295

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"Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a global family"-- Provided by publisher.

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